GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

FOREIGN MINISTER REQUESTED TQ SIGN. HINDENBURG RESIGNS COMMAND. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. . Received June 26, 9 p.m. Vancouver, June 24. Advices from Berlin state that the Foreign Minister refused to proceed to Paris to sign the treaty. - Hindenburg has resigued the command of the German army. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable ASS„. SITUATION GROWING WORSE. THE GREATEST TENSION. Received June 27, 1.20 a.m. Copenhagen, June 25. The situation in Berlin is growing worse. The railway strike has paralysed the important lines. London, June 26. The Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent reports that the greatest tension prevails, heightened by Herr Noske's threatened resignation. The orderly elements regard Noske as a bulwark against Spartacist terrorism, militarism and coups. There are serious food riots at Hemburg. The military intervened. Twelve persons were killed and thirty injured.— Ans. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

A REACTIONARY MOVEMENT. MORE BOMBASTIC STATEMENTS. Received June 26, 9 p.m. Copenhagen, June 24. A large number of German officers have telegraphed to Eerr Noske that they will not permit the surrender ot Ludendorff to the Entente except over their dead bodies: The reactionaries are planning a coup d'etat in Germany. Commanders 1 of Government volunteer ,troops are asking the soldiers whether they will support taking action against signing the disgraceful peace. Indications are that the Government is powerless to suppress the movement. Other accounts show that chaos reignsThe Vorwaerts says the treaty is due to compulsion, therefore it is valueless.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SOHEIDEMANN'S VIEWS. BEATEN, BUT ADVANCING TO VICTORY. Paris, June 14. Herr Scheidemann, addressing the Socialists, replied to attacks on the Government. He declared that their enemies," by the conditions of peace, were not combating Kaiaerism, but Socialism, in the interests of foreign capitalist The whole world demanded a peace of justice, but this could not be discerned in the decisions of the Council of Four. The German people would not perish or be slaves to foreign capital, but would serve the world on a footinb of equality with other peoples.

Herr Schiedemann said: "We endeavored to reach conciliation with the Entente at Versailles; We made all sacri-' Sees and tried to make a* treaty to end war."

Herr Schiedemann shouted: "Down with arms; we are now contending' in this .new world for social democracies; we have been beaten, it is true, but we still advance to victory."—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

Copenhagen, June ffl. Herr Ledebour has been acquitted, but remains in prison pending measures to protect Aim against the officers who threaten to assassinate him.